Theming without code

This guide only discusses modifying a theme through the use of certain files (template, CSS, .info etc) that can be placed in a theme folder. It's important to note that there are certain aspects of a site's presentation that may be easier to modify using the theme section of Drupal's Administration interface.

For example:

• Changing the color scheme of certain themes (this requires enabling the color module)
• Changing the default site logo, slogan and favicon

There are also a large number of contributed modules that allow you to control aspects of your theme through the administration interface. For example, many Drupal sites rely heavily on the following two modules:

• Content Creation Kit: Primarily used to create new content types, but it also provides the ability to change the labels and the ordering of fields in those content types. For more information, see the CCK documentation.
• Views: Enables the display of lists of nodes. Those lists can be configured to only display certain fields from those nodes. For more information, see the Views documentation.

There are hundreds of other contributed modules that may be useful for your theme but documentation for contributed modules is outside the scope of this guide.